14 members online - only 2 genuine
 

Dont give in to the Dicks

Hope Haynes can get on top of this when the super mod returns from hols. Its starting to get ridiculous, lets not give in to these bunch of tossers. I keep seeing Ash logged in trying to keep on top of deleting the spam but i'm sure he cant go on indefinitely - would be a big shame to loose the forum, just frightened Haynes may consider pulling the plug on it.

Keep fighting.........AndyH

I hope so too, just had a quick look and there were 10 new ones registering just now :eek: All had similar random usernames

At least tt and I only have to keep on top of one section now. It was hell before that

true, from the look of the posts this afternoon it certainly stops you getting bored!!! :D

as has been posted in the 'too easy' thread, up to over 1400 active members from 200 and something in october......thats a lot of 'dicks'!

Can you not put in security so that any new member has to first get authority from Ash or another other admin before they can do anything?

I'm no expert at forum protocol John but that sounds the easiest solution, would cause a lot of work though for the moderators in the mean time but should stop it. Plus once the spammers know that there is an approval process they would move on to the next victim. Maybe the forum software would need updating, TT is an knowledgeable in this field so maybe he would know.

I think everyone muchly appreciates everything your doing Ash & TT, as we've said before it must be a reall ballache to have to keep cleaning the trash up.

It does make you wonder if any top brass at Haynes are aware of what's happening with the forum that bearing their name or if the trail stops on a beach somewhere with pina colada in its hand :rolleyes:

It needs someone with admin rights to enable this and possibly also a software upgrade, unfortunately the admin dude's on holiday.

If haynes pulled the plug I for one would suffer withdrawl symptoms lets not let that happen

I did the admin for the Rally x web page a couple of years ago and every new user had to register first and then wait for email confirmation before they could post. I believe it's the same on the locost web page.

The speed that these new posts are appearing it looks like they are computer generated

Shame they cant get sent a nice virus. R Soles :rolleyes:

This one seems far more coherent than the rest :confused:

They are BOTS

TT

We did have pre-warning from a guy asking where he could download a bit of software that was a spam bot program and it all went pete tong from there.

There is a bot that is on the vb forums to combat this sort of attack but admin would have to install it, software is years out of date which isn't helping so manual checks is the only safe way atm. There are plenty of IP checkers out there to help with any banned IPs.

WTF is a Bot:confused: The only ones I know about are on nice looking chicks.

Bob

Short for robot I believe, artificial. Automatically creating these nuisance accounts and crappy usernames. I prefer the ones attached to the ladies !

Yes it's short for ROBOT. Been arround for a decade..

some good, some bad, some indiffrent..

the web is richer, the same , poorer for them


It's a bit of code written to go off and do somting on its own..

in this case it will run round the internet looking for vBulletin forums

once it finds a vB forum it will pass that back to another bot

that bot will then see if it can create a user account.

if it does it will pass that to a spam bot and the spam bot will start creating random accounts and post up pre-defined posts.



it's crude, but given the speed of the internet and computers it can get results relativly quickly..


if countermeasures such as e-mail verification are implemented then an advanced bot will sort that..

TT

TT or Ash, do you know when this guy is back from hols, I know you must be totally frustrated with the question/suggestion as well as dealing with the spammy fritters, but the current situation does seem to be having a negative effect on the site, there seems a declining number of genuine posts on a daily basis.

I'm trying to fill it up a bit with my rubbish but I think peeps are bored with that as well :(

should be back on the 26th i believe but i reckon it will take a bit of time when he is back to come up with a solution.

Cheers Ash, thanks again to you and TT for your efforts........;)

Bot's,more like useless Twot's.

I worked for a large fleet management company for a few years and the IT manager left and filled the website with spam,sad Billy no mates plonker with a grudge.:rolleyes:

Thanks Ash for the update, understandably it will take a little time to implement the appropriate upgrades/solutions.

Dont worry things have got much better. We now have 5 genuine members out of 16:rolleyes:

Bob:mad: